Spiritual practice requires commitment

Jul 3
Father, I woke up at 4 am. I was fine but hesitant and tot this is not an easy job to get up early and do practices. Then I tot of the benefits, my healthy, my sanity, my good looks. With that I start my practices. All were good.

During yday session, I nominated myself out of Finance. Alas, not granted as I am already out of Comp margin. Also, SS said he fight to keep me in. No wonder, he is so insistent I cannot go. If he fight for me to be in and then let me go, he look like a fool.


1. Issue
Receptivity
Listening is one of the basic secrets of entering into the temple of God. Listening means passivity, means forgetting urself completely - only then can u listen.
Neither duty, tot of merit or reward are important. Sensitivity, intuition and compassion are the qualities that shine forth now, dissolving all the obstacles that keep us separate from each other and from the whole.


2. Internal influence
Consciousness
Buddha represents the consciousness that is available to all who become a master of the mind and can use it as the servant it is meant to be.
When u choose this card, it means that there is a crystal clarity available right now, detached, rooted in the deep stillness that lies at the core of ur being.
There is no desire to understand from the perspective of the mind - the understanding u have now is existential, whole, in harmony with the pulse of life itself. Accept this great gift, and share it.

3. External influence of which u r aware
The Source
Zen asks u to come out of the head and go to the basic source. Zazen means just sitting at the very source, not moving anywhere, a tremendous force arises, a transformation of energy into light and love, into greater life, into compassion, into creativity. It can take many forms. But first, u have to learn how to be at the source. Then the source will decide where ur potential is. U can relax at the source and it will take u to ur very potential.

4. What is needed for resolution?
Compromise
Don't be clever, otherwise u will remain the same, u will not change.
Compromise always leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
If u r confused, remember that u r confused. U then have started on the journey.

5. Resolution
Ice-olation.
We r miserable because we r too much in the self. Either u can be in existence or u can be in the self. To be in the self means to become an island. If u r flowing, the self cannot exist.